Consisting in opening an online store, e-commerce is an activity that has developed a lot with the arrival of solutions like Shopify.
To be able to do e-commerce, you must necessarily use one of the platforms that will host the website, and manage all marketing and logistics aspects.
Shopify is one of the most popular platforms of the moment, I talk about it in my article dedicated to the Shopify story!
It’s in fact one of the main e-commerce platforms when you consider the number of shops that use it. The goal of e-commerce, or online commerce, is to be able to display and sell its products to as many people as possible.
But it’s not always easy and to get there, you have to make your site attractive.
Shopify provides you with many themes with various features. There are free and paid ones. I offer you here a top 10 of the best Shopify themes available on ThemeForest.
ThemeForest: what is it?
Before we share these 10 Shopify themes with you, let’s first look at what ThemeForest is all about. You may have heard about it, but you don’t really know what it is?
ThemeForest is the largest sales platform for WordPress or other themes in the world and the catalogue is quite complete.
These themes are used for various purposes. Indeed, whether it’s for the creation of a directory, a blog, a website (whatever the type), you will find the desired theme on ThemeForest.
This is an important platform in the sale of themes in general and Shopify themes in particular, exactly what we are interested in.
1. Ella
It is currently the most popular theme on ThemeForest. If your goal is to create a Shopify fashion shop, Ella is the right theme for you.
It allows you to intelligently combine colors with banners and content blocks. With this theme, you have different types of pre-designed sliders that allow you to present your collections and products.
Ella also offers you the possibility to include a blog or lookbook, very popular at the moment, to improve your marketing strategy. It also includes a quite interesting feature to show the sizes of all types of clothing.
The Ella theme has many other features that you will be able to discover as you use it.
2. Fastor
This is the best-selling theme on ThemeForest after Ella. Only created for Shopify, Fastor is useful for the creation of all types of e-commerce.
You can adapt your Shopify store to almost any type of product with over 80 pre-designed models of different stores offered by Fastor.
You can even start preparing for the Christmas holidays with the special Christmas integrations!
As far as loading speed is concerned, Fastor has by default a compressor that minimizes CSS and HTML on your site. This allows you to improve the loading speed of your Shopify site without using paid plugins or strange solutions.
Thanks to its original configuration, the Fastor theme works optimally with the dropshipping application Oberlo. You can therefore automatically import your products as you would normally do.
Fastor also has a specific menu to navigate on mobile phones but also a quick purchase option. The mobile user experience is perfect.
3. Porto
Like the previous themes, Porto is also very popular on ThemeForest. It offers a package with all the tools and functionalities necessary for the creation of an ultra-fast and creative e-commerce.
Porto comes with more than 20 demos and layouts to create your Shopify store according to your wishes.
It allows you to have absolute control over all your e-commerce thanks to the easy content management system. This system allows you to modify navigation, site content, images, products and collections, etc.
On the other hand, the Porto theme is optimized for SEO to allow your site to get a better ranking on search engines, well that’s not all, but it’s a good start.
4. Wokiee
In addition to being a simple Shopify theme to set up, Wokiee is also a powerful design tool.
It’s a theme that I find exceptional, I use it on one of my projects and it’s really nice, I talk about it in more detail in my article about Wokiee!
It has all the tools and modules necessary to create an ultra-reactive website for different themes with a wide variety of layouts and styles to create different structures and meet different kinds of needs.
With Wokiee, you get a consistent, fluid and optimized design in a few clicks, without worrying about it!
5. Gecko
Gecko is another of the heavyweights in Shopify theme. With more than 2,400 sales in one and a half years of operation, Gecko is one of the most popular Shopify themes on ThemeForest.
It allows you to create many layouts by mixing all the sections already integrated. Optimized, fluid and mobile-friendly, this theme should appeal to you if minimalist style is your thing.
This is a very interesting theme that includes more than 100 customization options.
6. Belle
Within a few months, Belle became one of ThemeForest’s top-rated themes. Belle has more than 100 features and improvements. It is a theme that is designed for any type of online business, whether general or specialized.
You also have the choice between his many demos to create and customize your Shopify store. Interestingly, you can combine the features of the different demos.
Whether you are a novice or a Shopify expert, you will surely find the theme very easy and intuitive to use!
7. Fastest
Fastest is another theme with a simple, even minimalist design. It is designed to be very fluid, responsive and fast to charge while offering simple installation and configuration.
It also has 100 special features and applications to boost your sales, including a countdown, wish list system, comparison and even reinsurance badges.
Like the other themes, Fastest has various pre-designed demos that make it easy to create and customize your e-commerce site. This theme is available on ThemeForest for $56.
It is in fact mainly a theme designed for dropshipping in single-product or multi-product.
8. Shella
Mainly designed for fashion shops, this theme has a very nice default style in grey shades.
Like the other themes, it includes everything you need to increase your sales and therefore your turnover. However, it stands out thanks to its banner builder, a feature much appreciated in online shops.
It also includes an icon pack and a rather fashion-oriented typography. Shella is therefore a theme totally designed for clothing stores.
9. Goodwin
This is one of the most recent themes on the list since it was released in December 2018. Goodwin offers more than 14 ready-to-use layouts and more than 50 other modules to fully customize any Shopify store.
It’s suitable for several types of shops: high-tech, fashion, sports, etc. It’s like a Swiss Army knife because everything is customizable: menu, home page, product sheet, blog and all the other pages.
It includes RTL mode, Google Rich Snippets, HTML validator and Shopify AR compatibility. Yes, you can offer an augmented reality experience to your visitors!
10. Elessi
Elessi is the last Shopify theme in the list and it’s still a simple, clean and modern theme.
Elessi is designed to provide a pleasant customer experience by providing more than 100 features. These include category and product filtering, a wish list, ajax navigation (more fluid), a sidebar and a product overview.
It’s a very easy theme to use and so is its installation. It has several models to launch a shop on food, children, etc.
How to choose your Shopify theme?
Now that you have an idea of what a very good Shopify theme looks like, it is important to understand the important points to consider if you choose a more personal search.
It’s very important to choose carefully because the themes directly define the impression your shop leaves to your visitors. To do this, you must:
- Consider your requirements: there are far too many pretty themes. Avoid rushing to the first theme because one or two people say « he converts better ». First of all, you have to determine what you really need by determining the features you want for your shop, how the products will be presented, how many products you plan to offer, etc.
- Start with free themes: paid themes are not an exact science and if you are new to this field, I advise you to start with free themes first. You may be able to find the one that comes closest to what you’re looking for. Otherwise, you can turn to paid themes, with already in mind a draft of the final aspect of your website.
- Focus on your sector: make sure that the final theme you choose corresponds to the sector of activity in which your shop operates. You probably know that each sector of activity sends different messages to consumers (colors, copywriting, etc.). You must then make sure that your theme and your shop are in adequacy with your activity.
The Shopify theme you have to choose should ideally give you enough control over your shop to create a suitable customer experience.
It’s not always easy and the themes that participate will make your life easier. It’s also useless to buy themes for more than $100 unless your needs are very specific and you need a tailor-made theme.
If I have a theme to recommend it would be Wokiee without hesitation, I use it mostly and it’s really, really good!
